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Thursday, 4 September 2014

Forgiveness Is Not For Those Who Do Ill-deeds

LESSON
# 485 FROM HOLY QUR’AN

Forgiveness Is Not For Those Who Do Ill-deeds

Surah NISAAA’ (WOMEN) - Chapter - 4)

Verses
–18 of 176, Section –3/24 (Part – 4)

And the forgiveness is not for those who do
ill-deeds until, when death attendeth upon one of them, he saith: Lo! I
repent now; nor yet for those who die while they are disbelievers. For such
We have prepared a painful doom.

It has been described in this verse that the
repentance of such people will never be accepted and they will never be
forgiven who continue to do ill-deeds and neither they refrain from the sins,
nor feel shame on their evil acts, to this degree that when the death attends
upon one of them, then they say, “I repent now”. Likewise, the forgiveness is
not for those who die while they are disbelievers and when they feel the signs
of death, then say, “I repent.” For such people Allah Almighty has prepared a
painful doom.

There is a proper time for the repentance, which
has been described, in the previous lesson. This verse signifies that those
persons who used to do ill-deeds and disobedience during their entire life,
when they reached the death’s door and the bells of life’s end pronounced, then
they began to cry, “I repent.” Likewise, the repentance of such people is also
useless who are drawing their last breaths in the form of infidelity. Apparent
reason of non-acceptance of such repentance is that until the punishment is in
the invisible veil, till then, fear from the punishment and due to this fear,
to repent from the sins discloses the Faith in Unseen. At the death’s point,
one observes some signs of punishment for his evil-deeds, and after
observation, Belief in Unseen do not remain. Therefore, neither belief is
acceptable, nor repentance is useful at the time of manifesting the punishment
or reward.

Notwithstanding this, the repentance is not only
to confess the sin but its aim is to correct and rectify the future life with
the repentance. If someone repents at the death point while there is no more
chance and capability of correction, then the repentance is not useful in such
condition. Pharoha also did such repentance. However, if anybody repents a moment
before reaching the life at its last point, then it is acceptable and if the
repentance of these Muslims is not accepted, even then these persons will not
remain in to the Hell forever. If Allah Almighty wishes, they may be forgiven. Nevertheless,
if they are not forgiven and are punished, then after completion of the
punishment they will proceed to the Paradise. However, those people who died
upon infidelity, their repentance is not acceptable on the Day of Judgment. They
will be fallen into the torment pain of Hell forever.

Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from Arabic to English by Marmaduke Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore (translated
Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).